What is factory pig raising? What are the characteristics?

Industrialized pig-raising is pig-raising production by industrial production, also known as modern pig-raising. It is an important part of the modernization of animal husbandry and an inevitable trend of the development of pig industry in China.

Generally speaking, industrialized pig raising has the following characteristics: First, the scale of pig raising is large; The second is to choose cross combinations or mating lines with consistent body shape and appearance and balanced growth and development; Third, choose some mechanized and automated equipment according to local conditions, such as automatic water guide, automatic feeding trough, leaky floor, automatic dung cleaning, automatic feed crushing, stirring, sub-packaging and distribution, etc. Fourth, fewer staff, less land occupation and high labor productivity; Fifth, scientific management methods are used to organize production, so that production conditions and technological processes can operate regularly according to standards, and production can be carried out smoothly with good quality and quantity. Others include limited feeding of sows, online feeding of weaned piglets, full-price compound feed, strict modern health and epidemic prevention measures and all-in and all-out production process.

The necessary conditions for industrialized pig raising are standardized pig herd, standardized feeding, standardized environment, modernization of health and epidemic prevention, modernization of machinery and equipment, modernization of production technology, etc.